Currently having the same debate. Will I stick with a MBP, or go with a non-Apple and run Ubuntu? I currently run VMWare Fusion on 4gigs of ram. The decision p

Currently having the same debate. Will I stick with a MBP, or go with a non-Apple and run Ubuntu? I currently run VMWare Fusion on 4gigs of ram. The decision points, for me, revolve around: * battery life - quad cores are 48nm, which is why MBP stuck with i7 32nm presumably. * price/performance - for $800 I have a 6 core desktop with 8 gigs of ram. For a $2000 budget I can get a desktop and a laptop, and have the VM on an external drive, swap the drive between machines out depending on where I'm working from. * durability, convenience and stability - can you do what you need to do without things breaking? DRM? Package management. There are a lot of trade-offs in either direction * job requirements - still need to debug in browsers on mac and windows. running osx in a virtual machine isn't super easy/legal. Since I've come to terms with most of the issues above, I've been wanting to not get a MBP. I can always keep my old mac, too. I'm not developing ipad/iphone apps...